Apr 26, 2010
How Gay Is Your Job?
J: I’m going home to do abit of work tonight.
D: Why? Tonight? Its Sunday!
J: Well, I like to get a head start on Monday. Do some work first. I love my job!
D: What kind of GAY job is that? If given a choice, I rather not work *groans*
Hearing this lively banter between two of my most loved friends made all of us present burst into laughter. The fact that they are both gay made the joke a tad funnier than it would have been otherwise.
Jokes aside, I’ve been pondering about the bits of truth in what they said.
How many of us fall into J’s spectrum and how many falls into D’s? Are you looking for a career as opposed to a job, willingly putting in the extra hours or effort, or are you just working, going through the motions and just working for the sake of an income? My experience is that most of the people I’ve come across are Ds with only a splattering of Js. (Extreme Ds are usually the whiners and job-hoppers. But its also true that they tend to suck at their work attitude and/or skills and possess more than a handful of lazy bones. Rare, but I do know a couple whom I sincerely believe need to be granted PR status on the Disastrous Employees of the Millennium list.)
Work commitment and passion should not be mixed up nor used interchangeably too. I take pride in my work and have no qualms in putting in the extra hours but that doesn’t mean I love my job. The extra hours are because I feel an obligation towards meeting my standard of excellence for a task I’m assigned responsibility to. But I have to admit, after awhile, the grind of long hours and a constant snow-balling of tasks at hand makes me feel dreary and jaded. It doesn’t help that my fiance has just given me a rating of 9.5 out of 10 on the workaholic scale.
I need an outlet. And I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
